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#wise man

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.


John B. S. Haldane


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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.


William Hazlitt


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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.


William Hazlitt


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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.


Heinrich Heine


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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.


Frank Herbert


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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.


Herodotus


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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.


Victor Hugo


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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.


Thomas Huxley


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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.


Diogenes


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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.


William Penn


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